What she really ought to be doing right now is attending every possible local democratic meeting, making a proper public facebook page for her political presence and registering people who are interested in not-Lynch in preparation for the actually campaign next year. None of this requires any staff at all.
You're quite right, however all of those things are work.
According to literally everyone ever employed by her that we've found, she's not a big fan of work. She enjoys what I refer to as "work culture". It's the concept of work, and all the irritating side bullshit that accompanies actual work.
Best as I can tell from our conversations with
@W person cow and associated info from her old GSK people, Brianna is one of those shitty bosses you sometimes have to deal with who conflates "progress reports" and "meetings" with "actually doing things", rather than the first two being a
direct obstacle to getting anything done.
She believes that demanding constant updates and micromanaging people is the same as working, and while updates and priorities are necessary, the stories about daily, lengthy, morning meetings to go over "progress" sound to me like someone who enjoys discussing tasks more than finishing them.
Nobody intending to accomplish anything with their day wastes the first 2 hours of it making action lists and arguing about priority. Yes, some tech startups do that, and you'll notice that something like 80% of startups fail within the first 2 years.
GSK being one of them, now that I mention it.
The actual work she needs to do, as you've outlined, is somewhat far-reaching, and requires significant legwork on her part. She was able to get around this in the tech industry by hiring scabs who work for peanuts and then tossing them out the airlock when they'd outlived their use.
In politics, however, there is no such shortcut. You're selling yourself, and that requires you to be present and active. The candidate needs to be putting in
more hours than anyone else, not less. We're talking 60 hour weeks, no vacations, because that's what it takes. You want power? You gotta bust your ass.
As they say, politics is a contact sport. You can't win sitting down.